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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kurisu, post: 7547564, member: 117063&quot;]I&#039;m submitting a suggestion I made months ago...Molly Pitcher!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley.... &quot;Molly Pitcher&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1302260[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A heroine in the Revolutionary War. Carried water to American soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolution 1778, then took over for her husband on the battlefield when he was no longer able to fight.</p><p><br /></p><p>A soldier who witnessed her in action wrote about in his diary, without referring to the woman involved by name: “While in the act of reaching a cartridge and having one of her feet as far before the other as she could step, a cannon shot from the enemy passed directly between her legs without doing any other damage than carrying away all the lower part of her petticoat.”</p><p>It&#039;s believed she said something like, “Well, that could have been worse,” then returned to firing her cannon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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